Evaluation of Taha Abdul Rahman's view on the relationship between reason and morality

Subject Areas : Intellectual explorations

mohammad saied abdollahi ¹ , Mohammad Ali Abdollahi ²

1 - Qom University
2 - University of Tehran, College of Farabi

Received: 2024-06-11 Accepted : 2024-10-02 Published : 2024-10-15

Keywords: Intellect, , morality, Taha Abdul Rahman, modernity, rationality,

Abstract :

The analysis of the relationship between reason and morality is as old as the history of thought, and philosophers from ancient Greece have always had a serious concern for evaluating this relationship. Taha Abd al-Rahman, an important Moroccan philosopher who is considered among the important thinkers of the Islamic world, is also trying to do something new by examining the concept of reason and morality and measuring the relationship between the two. In his thought, modern rationality is an element that is opposed to morality. To understand the nature of reason, he mentions three types of reason, whose analysis is necessary to understand the relationship between reason and morality. These three types of intellect are Abdur Rahman's innovative division, which can be considered as the basis of his moral system. In his opinion, the difference between humans and animals is morality, not reason . A rationality that is based on morality and constantly considers ethics as a supervisor and ruler has value, not that rationality that is alien to morality. In this article, after analyzing the two concepts of reason and morality in Abdul Rahman's thought, we will evaluate his approach regarding the relationship between reason and morality.

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